Comparative genomic analysis shows that avian pathogenic Escherichia coli isolate IMT5155 (O2:K1:H5; ST complex 95, ST140) shares close relationship with ST95 APEC O1:K1 and human ExPEC O18:K1 strains

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Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ge, Xiangkai Zhu ^a   Jiang, Jingwei ^a,b   Pan, Zihao ^a   Hu, Lin ^a   Wang, Shaohui ^c   Wang, Haojin ^a   Leung, Frederick C ^a,b   Dai, Jianjun ^a   Fan, Hongjie ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CONTIG; GENOMIC DNA; INVASIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN AATA; PROTEIN FECIRABCDE; PROTEIN IREA; PROTEIN PGTABCP; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN COLISEPTICEMIA; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRD DISEASE; CADC GENE; CHICK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EMBRYO; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IRON ACQUISITION SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PATHOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PYROSEQUENCING; RAT; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; YIDC GENE; ANIMAL; BIRD; CHICK EMBRYO; CLASSIFICATION; CPG ISLAND; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRDS; CHICK EMBRYO; CPG ISLANDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84964313654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112048     Document Type: Article

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